Bonaparte

150 years ago in The SunJan. 22: RAILROAD ACCIDENT -- On Tuesday morning last, the downward train of cars from Cumberland for Baltimore, encountered a horse on the track, throwing all the cars off but one, but fortunately injuring none of the passengers.Jan. 24: The Orphan's Home -- This is the title given by the Rev. Mr. Dolan to the Farm School which has been started, under his energetic action, a few miles from the city, to the left of the York Road. We learn that there are now fifteen boys there receiving an education, most of them orphans of those who died here last season from the ship fever.

An article yesterday about historical romances in Mount Vernon suggested that Baltimorean Elizabeth Patterson never married Jerome Bonaparte. The couple married in 1803, but Jerome's brother, Napoleon, rejected the match and arranged for the marriage to be annulled.Pub Date: 10/04/98

Let's use surplus in budget to help farmers on Shore2 Politicians should not approve such a venture.Richard A. ZehlBaltimoreReading the paper shows Fields was rightI read with much interest and amusement the article about a possible class action lawsuit against American Family Publishers the many people who feel duped or cheated by their tactics.The proposed litigants feel they were swindled in their effort to get rich quick.In the words of the great philosopher W. C. Fields: "You can't cheat an honest man."

Turning swords into plowshares is sublime, but turning Bullets into Wizards is wizardry.Alan Greenspan is a Republican whose job is to get President Clinton re-elected, as Alice Rivlin will remind him.France will abandon Napoleon Bonaparte's universal male draft, but not his dreams.Without horses, Maryland's slot-machine industry would fail.

A FEW questions were in the air in 1910, when this newspaper began, and a few more have arisen across the 85 years since -- unanswered questions that we bequeath to future reporters or investigators. Call them, perhaps, Maryland mysteries.Some of these uncertainties are common knowledge, such as the Mary in our state name (was it for Mary of Nazareth or for Queen Henriette-Marie, wife of Charles I?). Others, such as the location on Kent Island of the trading post established by William Claiborne of Virginia before the arrival of Ark and Dove, may be unsolvable (the post's remains, if any, probably now being under water)

Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke has named Assistant Planning Director Victor L. Bonaparte as Baltimore's acting transportation commissioner.Mr. Bonaparte, 44, who has worked in the Planning Department for 19 years, Monday will replace Herman Williams Jr., who has been named fire chief."

Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke named Assistant Planning Director Victor L. Bonaparte as Baltimore's acting transportation commissioner yesterday.Mr. Bonaparte, 44, who has worked in the Planning Department for 19 years, Monday will replace Herman Williams Jr., who has been named fire chief."

AJACCIO, Corsica -- Corsica has a big attachment to its most famous son. He is the object of an obsession that seems to go beyond mere commercial exploitation. In addition to all the Bonaparte bric-a-brac on sale, the plastic busts, pictures, plates, etc., his visage, with its pouty lips and brooding eyes, his name, ++ is everywhere.For instance, the Hotel Napoleon is on the rue Napoleon, just off the cours Napoleon where the Bonaparte cinema and Galleria Bonaparte flourish. Around the corner, near the Little Corporal Restaurant and the Restaurant Pizzeria Napoleon, stands a statue of Napoleon I gazing down to the quai Napoleon, where the boats are moored.

Jujuan Bonaparte knew it was time to get out of her apartment when a plump rat chewed the nipple off her baby's bottle and then started to gnaw on his wicker bassinet.For a year, she had endured the peeling paint and plaster, a broken bathroom floor, a collapsed living room ceiling and the poor heating of her East Baltimore apartment.But when the rats came near her baby, Ms. Bonaparte had had enough. She and her two children fled.They joined a 14-year stream of desperately poor people who say they have suffered the indignity, not to mention the hazards, of living in a house belonging to R. William Connolly Jr.Whatever shelter Mr. Connolly's homes provide appears to come with an equal measure of despair, as Ms. Bonaparte, a 20-year-old woman now living in her mother's West Baltimore apartment, attested.

Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy" demonstrates how the golden gleam of fame and fortune can tarnish a man's true nature. But there's hardly any tarnish on New Century Theater's production, directed by Mark Redfield and being presented at St. John's ChurchTo the contrary, this carefully designed, insightfully interpreted revival lets the play's nature shine through at the same time that it breathes fresh life into the characters and themes. The result is a morality melodrama that still packs a punch.

On June 20, 2009, former school teacher of Darlington, SC., and Baltimore, MD. He is survived by two sisters, Saundra Bacote and Gwendolyn Smalls both of SC.; two brothers, James Franklin Bacote of Baltimore and Larry Abraham of NC; godfather Robert Bonaparte of Bonaparte Florist. Mr. Bacote may be viewed Friday, 4 P.M at the New Metropolitan Baptist Church, 1501 McCulloh Street, where family will receive friends at 7 P.M. Funeral services 7:30 P.M. Final funeral services conducted Monday in Darlington, SC, by the Jordan Funeral Home.

A former and current Baltimore police officer received suspended jail sentences yesterday in a case in which a Morgan State University office manager and two young women were assaulted outside a Federal Hill pizza shop in 2005, according to city prosecutors. The victim, Akhenaton R. Bonaparte IV, has said the two officers, who are white, harassed him and called him a racist as he and his two young female friends talked about African-American history in Maria D's shop on Light Street. Jack H. Odom, who resigned from the force after the incident, was sentenced to a 10-day suspended jail sentence and a year of probation.

On April 12, 2008, KENITHEA RENEE, beloved daughter of Senithea Hilliard Adams and Kenneth Bonaparte and loving sister of Kendra Bonaparte. Also survived by her stepfather, Eric Von Adams, many aunts, uncles, cousins, other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services, 4101 Edmondson Avenue (at Wildwood Parkway) on Thursday from 2 to 7 P.M. Instate at Garden of Prayer Baptist Church, 1148 Homestead Street on Friday after 9:30 A.M., where family will receive friends at 11:30 A.M. Service to begin at 12 noon.

Meat in the middle. Soul on the edge. Pork belly inspires thoughts like that for me. Maybe it's just the fat rushing to my brain. But when I introduce someone to pork belly - to soft meat surrounded by fat that is meltingly tender on the inside and crisp on the outside - what I usually hear (through the moans) is, "That is to die for." "Yes," I reply cheerfully. "And with that in your arteries, it won't be long." Pork belly, of all things, has become a food-world darling. Wait - isn't pork belly the stuff that's traded as a commodity on Wall Street?

THE PROBLEM -- Large trucks use Bonaparte Avenue in East Baltimore even though doing so is prohibited. THE BACKSTORY -- Bonaparte Avenue is a residential street that runs through the East Baltimore-Midway neighborhood. Truck drivers seem to like it as a convenient shortcut to industries at the eastern edge of the city, ignoring signs that bar them from using the road. "The trucks are shaking our houses and knocking our pictures off the walls," said John D. Brown, who has lived on Bonaparte for 21 years.

Two Baltimore police officers who had assault charges against them dismissed because of a procedural error can be tried again by city prosecutors, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled yesterday, rejecting the officers' claims of double jeopardy. Officer Jack H. Odom Jr. was charged with three counts of second-degree assault and Officer Michael D. Brassell with one count of second-degree assault stemming from an altercation outside Maria D's on Light Street in October. Akhenaton R. Bonaparte IV, who is black, alleged that the officers, who are white, harassed him and called him a racist as he talked with two female friends about African-American history.

The Baltimore state's attorney's office has refiled assault charges against two city police officers who had their original cases dismissed last month after a judge ruled prosecutors failed to follow correct procedures, according to court documents. Officer Jack H. Odom Jr. is charged with three counts of second-degree assault and Officer Michael D. Brassell faces one count of second-degree assault, prosecutors said. Both officers have been suspended with pay. The officers are accused of assaulting a man and two young women outside Maria D's, a Federal Hill pizza shop, in October.

Two Baltimore police officers charged with assaulting a man and two young women outside a Federal Hill pizza shop had their case dismissed yesterday after a judge ruled that prosecutors did not follow the right steps in bringing the case to court. District Judge James L. Mann Jr. ruled during a hearing yesterday that since the charging documents - handwritten by the accusers - indicated that the officers were on-duty, prosecutors had to follow a series of legal steps before they could allow the charges to be formally filed in District Court.

They were three friends casually talking about famous black men in world history over slices of pizza at a Federal Hill carryout one Saturday evening. Two men who appeared to have been drinking walked in, ordered food and then inexplicably butted into the friends' conversation, witnesses would later tell police. Akhenaton R. Bonaparte IV, who is black, said the two white men leveled a steady barrage of insults at him and his two teenage friends inside Maria D's restaurant. One called him a racist, and provoked him into a fight on Light Street that ended, Bonaparte said, with him pinned against a car with his hands cuffed behind his back.

Police identified yesterday the man whom two officers shot Monday night after an armed robbery and attempted home invasion in South Baltimore. Christopher Brooks, 23, of the 200 block of S. Mason Court was being treated yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center and was expected to survive, said police spokesman Agent Donny Moses. Police do not charge suspects until they are released from the hospital. Brooks has a criminal record that includes being placed on two years' probation in April after an arrest on a charge of drug manufacturing.